Brenda Christie's CoP Blog: Research Proposal: Context and Themes

Barthes, R. (1977) The Death of the Author In: Image-Music-Texts, St. Ives: Fontana Press
McLuhan, M. (1967) The Medium is the Massage, California: Gingko Press
Benjamin, W. (1969) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, New York: Schocken Books
Deleuze, G. (2005) Cinema 2, New York: Continuum
Frederic, J. (1991) Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Collington, M. (2016) Animation in Context: A Practical Guide of Theory and Making, New York: Fairchild Books

'... the reader is a man without history, without biography, without psychology; he is only that someone who holds gathered into a single field all the paths of which the text is constituted.' (Barthes,1977)

'Our electrically-configured world has forced us to move from the habit of data classification to the mode of pattern recognition. We can no longer build serially, block-by-block, step-by-step, because instant communication insures that all factors of the environment and of experience coexist in a state of active interplay.' (McLuhan, 1967)

'the dissolution of an autonomous sphere of culture is rather to be imagined in terms of an explosion: a prodigious expansion of culture throughout the social realm, to the point at which everything in our social life – from economic value and state power to practices and to the very structure of the psyche itself – can be said to have become “cultural” in some original and yet untheorised sense.' (Jameson, 1991)

'The history of every art form shows critical epochs in which a certain art form aspires to effects which could be fully obtained only with a changed technical standard, that is to say, is a new art form' (Benjamin, 1969)

'By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring common place milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected fields of actions.' (Benjamin, 1969)

'I like intuition and emotions. They are most powerful to me, because people feel them.' (Lynch, 1985)

'To me, sound and image are equally important. I think it's got a great power and it's got a great impact on the subconsciousness. .... If you've got an image and add a certain sound, then this thing comes to life, gets the mood you want it to have and people respond to it. That's why it's so important. All I do is to try to combine the right image with the right sound.' (Lynch, 1985)